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Springer Verlag, Singapore Ethnography and Education Policy: A Critical Analysis of Normalcy and Difference in Schools
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Schools are being produced right now.- 2 Shot and Fragment: The place of researchers in Ethnography.- 3 Queering habits and entanglements of the Normal and Deviant subjectivities in Ethnographies.- 4 Discomfort: Affects, actors, and objects in Ethnographic intervention.- 5 The production of the problem of difference in neoliberal educational policies.- 6 Normalcy and Deviance: The production of schools and their subjects.- 7 Diversity and the failure of the civilizing project.- 8 Unpredictable meanings.- 9 Disentanglements.- 10 Future thoughts.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector: Australian Perspectives, Policies and Practice
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the higher education sector in cultural competence policy and practice. Drawing on lessons learned, current research and emerging evidence, the book examines various innovative approaches and strategies that incorporate Indigenous knowledge and practices into the development and implementation of cultural competence, and considers the most effective approaches for supporting cultural competence in the higher education sector. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and general readers interested in cultural competence policy and practice.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction.- 1 Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Sector: A journey in the academy.- Part II Perspectives.- 2 The "Culture" in Cultural Competence.- 3 Reflecting on a Way of Being: Anchor principles of cultural competence.- 4 Locating Human Rights in the Cultural Competence Context.- 5 On the Critical, Morally Driven, Self-Reflective Agents of Change and Transformation: A literature review on culturally competent leadership in higher education.- 6 Beliefs, Events and Values Inventory Assessment of Global Identity: Implications and applications for international, cross-cultural and transformative learning.- Part III Policy and Policy Issues.- 7 Evaluating Cultural Competence in Indigenous Higher Education Contexts in Australia: A challenge for change.- 8 Indigenist Leadership in Academia: Towards an aspirational model of mindful servant leadership.- 9 Racism a Social Determinant of Indigenous Health: Yarning about cultural safety and cultural competence strategies to improve indigenous health.- 10 Healing Mainstream Health: Building understanding and respect for indigenous knowledges.- 11 History in the Now: Asserting indigenous difference in "Top End" higher education using culturally responsive pedagogy.- Part IV Practice and Programs.- 12 The Sydney Language on our Campuses and in our Curriculum.- 13 Students and Academics Working in Partnership to Embed Cultural Competence as a Graduate Quality.- 14 Embedding Cultural Competence in Science Curricula.- 15 Embedding Cultural Competence in Faculty: A mixed-methods evaluation of an applied indigenous proficiency workshop.- 16 An Indigenous Australian Cultural Competence Course: Talking culture, race and power.- 17 "Learning Through Reflection" - Enhancing culturally proficient learning communities in midwifery practice and education: An experience-based learning journey in London, United Kingdom.- Part V Conclusion.- 19 Future Directions: Cultural competence and the higher education sector.
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Austin Macauley From Campus to Career
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Austin Macauley Homo Oppositus
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Ched Ed Aztec Empire: A Brief History from Beginning to
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) East and Southeast Asia 20252026
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Emerald Publishing Inc Mentoring Doctoral Students in Higher Education
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC A Handbook for Improving Student Achievement in
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Evolving with the Infinite
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Winning Resumes
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Hani Khoury Giving Up Is Not an Option: Memoirs of a
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Cengage Learning, Inc Business Ethics
Book SynopsisBUSINESS ETHICS, 9th Edition is a comprehensive and practical guide that will help you with real life ethical issues that rise in the business world. It will assist you through the process of developing the critical thinking and analytical skills needed to successfully navigate the unique set of problems that emerge when ethics and commerce collide. This book focuses on key ethical concepts and emphasizes the real world importance of critical topics such as the nature of morality, major theories of ethics and economic justice, and competing views of capitalism and corporate responsibility. It is thorough, flexible, and designed to bolster student involvement with the material for better comprehension and understanding.Table of ContentsPART I: MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS. 1. THE NATURE OF MORALITY. Ethics. Moral versus Nonmoral Standards. Religion and Morality. Ethical Relativism. Having Moral Principles. Morality and Personal Values. Individual Integrity and Responsibility. Moral Reasoning. 2. NORMATIVE THEORIES OF ETHICS. Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Theories. Egoism. Utilitarianism. Kant���s Ethics. Other Nonconsequentialist Perspectives. Utilitarianism Once More. Moral Decision Making: A Practical Approach. 3. JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTION. The Nature of Justice. The Utilitarian View. The Libertarian Approach. Rawls���s Theory of Justice. PART II: AMERICAN BUSINESS AND ITS BASIS. 4. THE NATURE OF CAPITALISM. Capitalism. Key Features of Capitalism. Two Arguments for Capitalism. Criticisms of Capitalism. Today���s Economic Challenges. 5. CORPORATIONS. The Limited-Liability Company. Corporate Moral Agency. Rival Views of Corporate Responsibility. Debating Corporate Responsibility. Institutionalizing Ethics within Corporations. PART III: BUSINESS AND SOCIETY. 6. CONSUMERS. Product Safety. Other Areas of Business Responsibility. Deception and Unfairness in Advertising. The Debate over Advertising. 7. THE ENVIRONMENT. Business and Ecology. The Ethics of Environmental Protection. Achieving Our Environmental Goals. Delving Deeper into Environmental Ethics. PART IV: THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PEOPLE IN IT. 8. THE WORKPLACE (1): BASIC ISSUES. Civil Liberties in the Workplace. Hiring. Promotions. Discipline and Discharge. Wages. Labor Unions. 9. THE WORKPLACE (2): TODAY���S CHALLENGES. Organizational Influence in Private Lives. Testing and Monitoring. Working Conditions. Redesigning Work. 10. MORAL CHOICES FACING EMPLOYEES. Obligations to the Firm. Abuse of Official Position. Bribes and Kickbacks. Gifts and Entertainment. Conflicting Obligations. Whistle-Blowing. Self-Interest and Moral Obligation. 11. JOB DISCRIMINATION. The Meaning of Job Discrimination. Evidence of Discrimination. Affirmative Action: The Legal Context. Affirmative Action: The Moral Issues. Comparable Worth. Sexual Harassment. SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING.
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Xlibris Us Chalk Talk: An Analysis of the Philosophies of
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Transcript Verlag Beyond the Original
Book SynopsisCan DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? The recent developments in AI present a timely opportunity to look at the concept of literary translation anew. The contributors to this volume delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure. In doing so, they go beyond the conventional view of translation as a reproduction of the original. Highlighting translations that faced criticism or went unnoticed, the contributors offer a new perspective on well-known authors by looking at their lesser-known translated texts.
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V&R Unipress Teaching Contemporary English Literature: A
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Gifted Unlimited A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children
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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Improving the quality of non-formal adult
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Assemblage Theory and Method
Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by ''assemblage'' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there is in using this term and not some other term, or indeed no term at all? What makes an assemblage an assemblage, and not some other kind of collection of things? This book advances beyond this impasse and offers practical help in thinking about and using assemblage theory for contemporary cultural and social research, in order to:- Answer the question: what is an assemblage?- Explain why assemblage theory is necessary- Provide clear instructions on how to use assemblage theoryIan Buchanan maps the beginnings of a brand new field within the humanities.Trade ReviewIn this manuscript Buchanan clarifies some of the most powerful, widely used and generally misunderstood concepts advanced by Deleuze and Guattari that comprise assemblage theory. * Sue Ruddick, Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada *By carefully returning to their texts to excavate not only the concept of the assemblage but the related notions of stratification, desire, territorialization, the body without organs, the virtual and the actual, and more, Buchanan corrects many of the modish and often ad hoc appropriations of Deleuze and Guattari’s work so often found in works of contemporary theory. * Nathan Widder, Professor of Political Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Ian Buchanan shows that the assemblage does not refer to things nor to an ensemble of parts, but rather to the constitution of life in chaos. As such, he reveals that the key to analysing new, ever more subtle, forms of social control is to repeat the tasks of schizoanalysis: mapping the intimate connection between stratification and desire in the configuration of territories that make both life, and its annihilation, possible. * Patricio Landaeta, Professor of Philosophy, Center of Advanced Studies, University of Playa Ancha, Chile *Buchanan has succeeded in offering the clearest and most precise articulation of the concept of assemblage. Displaying an admirable ability to bring the abstract and theoretical to life through vivid, culturally relevant applications, this is a must read for anyone interested in returning to a conceptually rigorous understanding of assemblage that incorporates the full complexity of the term as Deleuze and Guattari intended. * Janae Sholtz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University, Pennsylvania, USA *Ian Buchanan’s book succeeds in carving out the ‘assemblage theory’ of Deleuze and Guattari against suitors to the illegitimate uses of the concept. By calling into question the condition of the possibility of critical thinking itself, his ruthless and passionate intervention into the debate is the very way that Deleuze and Guattari do European philosophy. His rare achievement reaffirms the view that Deleuze and Guattari are now global thinkers and for everyone interested in the global theory of Deleuze and Guattari, this book proves to be an excellent resource in the ‘minor’ exercise of Deleuze and Guattari. You can resist it but do so at your own risk. * Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Professor of Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea *Assemblage Theory and Method ... [is an] excellent teaching tool that you can trust to give an erudite exposition of Deleuze and Guattari’s writing. * Avello Publishing Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Problem of Strata Chapter 2 Desire and Machines Chapter 3 Territory Chapter 4 Expressive Materialism Chapter 5 Control Assemblage Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Teaching Happiness and WellBeing in Schools
Book SynopsisThis updated edition is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing a well-being programme in your school. The book covers three areas: well-being as a philosophy of education, the teaching approach to well-being and the content that might form a well-being programme in a school. It is also a manifesto for a meaningful aim to education.There has recently been an explosion of interest in positive psychology and the teaching of well-being and ''happiness'' in the PSHE world in schools and many teachers are looking for clear information on how to implement these potentially life-changing ideas in the classroom. This book provides an introduction to the theory of positive psychology and a practical guide on how to implement the theory in (primarily secondary) schools. It is written by Ian Morris who worked under Anthony Seldon at Wellington College which is well-known for its well-being and happiness curriculum.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The place of happiness and well-being in education Chapter 2: Learning to train elephant riders: teaching techniques for happiness and well-being/ Chapter 3: Virtue, character and well-being/ Chapter 4: The human body/ Chapter 5: Learning the ways of the mind/ Chapter 6: Developing strong relationships/ Chapter 7: Getting stuck in: engagement and flow/ Chapter 8: Learning about consuming/ Chapter 9: Meaning and spirituality
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Yellow Book of Games and Energizers: Playful
Book SynopsisPeople of all ages learn important life skills through playing games, and recognising this can be the key to enhancing their social, educational and personal development. Incorporating play into teaching and training not only makes learning fun, but it can also open minds to the value of cooperation, communication and reflection.The book is a collection of tried and tested games for use in workshops, youth groups and the classroom, covering everything from icebreakers and group forming ideas, to brain-bending word games like "Napoleon Has Lost His Pipe" and hilarious high energy games like "Group Juggle". With clear instructions, delightful illustrations and discussion ideas for every game, this book makes it easy to encourage everyone from age 6 to 86 to think for themselves, use their imagination, and interact positively with those around them.Packed with exciting and energizing games that will entertain everyone involved, this book will be a vital resource for teachers, youth group leaders, trainers, and anyone else wishing to enrich their work with playful games and ideas.Trade ReviewThis book provides an imaginative collection of more than one hundred life skills games suitable for use by teachers, youth workers and therapists who work with groups. I found it clearly written, imaginatively illustrated and readily accessible to read or “dip-in” to... The Yellow Book of Games and Energizers is a compendious work that will be invaluable to new practitioners and a useful refresher for “old hands”. -- British Association of Play Theapists.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Tips for working with energizer games. 1. Icebreaker and community building. 2. Forming subgroups. 3. Fun. 4. Communication. 5. Evaluating and parting. Alphabetical content of the energizers.
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Columbia University Press Leveling the Learning Curve
Book SynopsisBuilt on interviews with more than fifty leading practitioners from major universities and ed-tech firms, Leveling the Learning Curve is an indispensable guide to the inner workings of digital education.Trade ReviewAn impressive cross-sector review of the successes and failures from across the digital higher education landscape. A must-read for university presidents, provosts, and deans looking to chart their institutions’ digital futures. -- Anant Agarwal, founding CEO of edXA crucial book at a crucial time. Education is key to development and our planet’s long-term survival. This book asks whether top universities are willing to accept the challenge of playing a major role in this. -- Judith Rodin, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of PennsylvaniaThe pandemic let the EdTech genie of the bottle and it’s not going back. It’s clear that online tools and hybrid learning will play a key role in the future of higher education. This carefully researched book provides and important road map for what this future might look like. -- Vikas Pota, founder and CEO, T4 EducationAn important book for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in an interconnected world. Addresses both the key challenges and opportunities that post-COVID educational leaders face and the lessons that the pandemic period offers for the future. -- Jonathan Becker, vice chancellor, Open Society University NetworkIndustry after industry has been transformed by digital tools. This smart and practical book argues that now is the time for universities to finally embrace their digital futures, and shows how. -- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, former French Minister of National Education, Higher Education, and ResearchThe connection between digital education and international development is crucial but often overlooked. This book explores key ways universities can make an impact beyond their gates. -- Jendayi Frazer, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairsBy focusing on connectivity and inclusivity, Leveling the Learning Curve shows us how universities can dramatically extend their contributions across what previously were considered barriers. -- Stephen Goldsmith, professor, Harvard University, former mayor of Indianapolis, and former deputy mayor, New York CityA fantastic examination of real-world examples of how innovative universities are using digital tools. Explores the key role that digital can play in increasing learning equity. -- Joshua Kim, Dartmouth College, coauthor of Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher EducationLeveling the Learning Curve offers a comprehensive assessment of how technology and innovative teaching techniques can reinvent the university classroom, providing better learning for more students in more places at a lower cost. -- David Osborne, author of Reinventing GovernmentSpecifically designed as both a DIY manual and an in-depth study of the subject, 'Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University' must be considered as required reading for educational leaders and institutional policy makers seeking to navigate the ever evolving complexities of a post-pandemic digital education in our contemporary colleges and universities. A seminal and groundbreaking study, [LtLC] is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Education Policy Planning and Application collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. * Midwest Book Review *Table of Contents1. Leveling the Curve2. The COVID Moment in Context3. The New Connected University4. Leading Digital Transformation5. Digital Competencies6. Designing and Creating Digital Classes and Programs7. The Blended Learning Toolkit8. Digital Case Studies9. Networked Learning10. The Future11. Better Ways to Teach and LearnAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Interviews and Demos ConductedIndex
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Columbia University Press Fear of Seeing
Book SynopsisFear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital.Trade ReviewWith Fear of Seeing, Mingwei Song opens our eyes to a brave new world of Chinese science fiction. It is a book that simultaneously celebrates the genre’s literary audacity, explores its innovative vision of the future, and reveals the uncanny horror hidden beneath its surface. -- Michael Berry, translator of ExorcismSong has written the most critically significant and astonishingly revelatory account of the rise of new wave Chinese SF. Brilliant scholarship like this appears once in a lifetime, if we’re lucky. -- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of This Is How You Lose HerFear of Seeing demonstrates the paradoxical significance of the “new wave” of Chinese science fiction as a genre whose aesthetics and ethics offer their audience an alternative window on the cultural sphere: a window upon that which is unknown, uncertain, or otherwise hidden. -- Nathaniel Isaacson, author of Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science FictionThis is remarkably visionary and insightful scholarship on Chinese New Wave science fiction from the late 1990s to 2020s. Song’s panoramic yet in-depth analysis of various New Wave sf works is exceptionally informative. His theoretical exploration of the Neo-Baroque poetics in Chinese SF is thoroughgoing and inspiring. -- Hua Li, author of Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural ThawDrawing on a near-encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary Chinese-language SF literature, combined with long-standing friendships with many of the corresponding authors, Song’s Fear of Seeing offers a provocative new look at this dynamic emerging field, while also examining how a dialectics of sight and blindness runs through the genre itself. -- Carlos Rojas, author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern ChinaMingwei Song has written the definitive book on contemporary Chinese science fiction. From space odyssey to dystopian adventure, galactic cataclysm to millennial apocalypse, Song probes why science fiction matters so much for how we engage with—and imagine—China’s future and past, and offers observations on speculative poetics at the planetary scale. A groundbreaking work! -- David Der-wei Wang, author of Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Lonely Hidden Army, 20101. Poetics of the Invisible: Introducing the New Wave2. Science Fiction as Method: Worlding the Genre3. Can We Read “A Madman’s Diary” as Science Fiction? Rewriting Literary HistoryExcursus I: Looking Backward: 2010–19004. A Poetic Heart in the Dark Forest: Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Universe5. The Power of Darkness in Han Song: Mythology of the Chthonic6. Variations on Utopia: Specters and Myths7. A Topology of Hope: Sinotopia and Heterotopia8. Chinese New Wave Goes Global: The Posthuman TurnExcursus II: The Rise of She-SF: 2010–20229. New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: Opening of the Neo-BaroqueEpilogue: The Wandering Earth, 2019NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of California Press Education and Society An Introduction to Key
Book SynopsisDrawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students' own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editors’ Introduction Part 1 Theoretical Orientations in the Sociology of Education 1 The Growth of Schooling in Global Perspective Evan Schofer 2 A Contextual Understanding of Schools’ Role in the Stratification System: Are Schools a Compensatory, Neutral, or Exacerbatory Institution? Douglas Downey Part 2 Student Experiences in Education 3 Gender Inequality in Education: Outcomes and Experiences Catherine Riegle-Crumb 4 Hidden in Plain Sight: Rethinking Race in Education Rob Eschmann and Charles M. Payne 5 Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants in American Schools: Shifting Demographics Edelina M. Burciaga CASE STUDY 1 Sexualities in Education C. J. Pascoe and Tony Silva 6 Social Class and Student-Teacher Interactions Jessica Calarco 7 First-Generation College Students Lisa M. Nunn 8 Peer Sorting, Peer Influence, and Student Outcomes William Carbonaro CASE STUDY 2 The “Asian F” and the Racialization of Achievement Jennifer Lee, Sean Drake, and Min Zhou Part 3 Schools and Other Educational Organizations 9 Creating the Canon: The Meaning and Effects of Textbooks and Curricula Patricia Bromley and Daniel Scott Smith 10 Sorting Students for Learning: Eight Questions about Secondary-School Tracking Sean Kelly 11 Special Education and Social Inequality Jacob Hibel 12 A Sociology of School Discipline Richard Arum, E. Christine Baker-Smith, and Jessica Lipschultz CASE STUDY 3 Within Elite Academic Walls: Inequity and Student Experience on Campus Megan Thiele and Karen Jeong Robinson 13 School Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Economic Status Ann Owens 14 Sociological Perspectives on Leading and Teaching for School Change Sarah L. Woulfin 15 School Choice: Policy and Perspectives Linda Renzulli and Maria Paino 16 Higher Education and the Labor Market Eric Grodsky and Julie Posselt CASE STUDY 4 Importing School Forms across Professional Fields: An Understudied Phenomenon in the Sociology of Education Amy Binder and Scott Davies Index
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Harvard University Press Greek and Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisAngelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRL 14) translated into English for the first time.Trade ReviewKnox’s first-rate talent as a translator remains in evidence on every page, even and especially when the text of more than a few poems is unapologetically risqué. Kudos to Peter Knox for pulling no punches. And plaudits to him for superb work all around. -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *
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Princeton University Press The Political Context of Sociology
Book SynopsisThe author traces 19th-century origins of sociology in post-Revolutionary Europe, and contrasts European and American approaches to sociological data. Using the concepts of mass behavior and mass society as case studies, he suggests the continuing influence of social and political philosophies in sociology to the present day. Originally publishedTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CONTENTS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. THE USES OF SOCIOLOGY, pg. 11*CHAPTER TWO. EUROPEAN THEORIES OF THE MASS AND MASS SOCIETY, pg. 27*CHAPTER THREE. EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS ON THE CROWD: THE CONCEPT OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR, pg. 47*CHAPTER FOUR. THE RISE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY, pg. 73*CHAPTER FIVE. THE AMERICAN CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF MASS SOCIETY: RESEARCH IN MASS COMMUNICATIONS, pg. 96*CHAPTER SIX. MASS SOCIETY, MASS CULTURE, AND TOTALITARIANISM, pg. 121*CHAPTER SEVEN. SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL RESEARCH, pg. 140*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 155*INDEX, pg. 159
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Wayne State University Press Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
Book SynopsisThis illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough''s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, Scarborough was an exemplary scholar, particularly in the field of classical studies. He was the first African American member of the Modern Language Association, a forty-four-year member of the American Philological Association, and a true champion of higher education. Scarborough advocated the reading, writing, and teaching of liberal arts at a time when illiteracy was rampant due to slavery''s legacy, white supremacists were dismissing the intellectual capability of blacks, and Booker T. Washington was urging African Americans to focus on industrial skills and training.The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough is a valuable historical record of the life and work of a
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Bristol University Press Creative Research Methods in Education
Book SynopsisCo-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. It illustrates how using creative methods, such as poetic inquiry, theatre and animation, can support learning and illuminate participation and engagement.Table of ContentsIntroduction Research Design Context-Setting Data Gathering Using Two Dimensional and Technological Methods – Research With Children and Young People Data Gathering Using Three Dimensional and Online Methods – Research With Adults Data Analysis Writing/Reporting Presentation Dissemination Where to Next With Creative Research Methods
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Stanford University Press Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay
Book SynopsisThinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a documentary film. Exploring a variety of works by contemporary artists and writers who exemplify poetic thinking, this book draws our attention to one of the crucial affordances of this form of creative human insight and wisdom: its capacity to help protect and cultivate human freedom. All the contemporary works of art and literature that Poetic Thinking Today examines touch on our recent experiences with tyranny in culture and politics. They express the uninhibited thoughts and ideas of their creators even as they foster poetic thinking in us. In an era characterized by the global reemergence of authoritarian tendencies, Amir Eshel writes with the future of the humanities in mind. He urges the acknowledgment and cultivation of poetic thinking as a crucial component of our intellectual pursuits in general and of our educational systems more specifically. Trade Review"In this beautifully woven book, Eshel demonstrates what twenty-first-century 'thinking without a banister' can be: a life-affirming chance to open up the world poetically and ethically to new and transformative possibilities."—Todd Samuel Presner, University of California, Los Angeles"Poetic Thinking Today should be required reading for defenders of the humanities in our current political moment. Eshel's assiduous research, sensitive readings, and light touch of self-reflection make for a moving, inspiring essay: a testament to the enduring relevance of thinking as freedom, of art as resistance."—Lital Levy, Princeton University"In this beautiful, brilliant, and moving study, Eshel calls attention to poetic thinking as indispensable to understanding the human condition and especially to the challenge of defining freedom without limitations. Itself an enactment of embodied and empowered thinking, reading, and observing, his book offers a guide to a meaningful and responsible life."—Ulrich Baer, New York University"This exciting work asks important questions and defends the significance of the humanities. One of Eshel's inspirations is Arendt's ideal of 'thinking without banisters.' He has the intellectual daring to follow her example. Highly recommended."—B. Almon, CHOICE"Even if knowledge is power, the capacity to judge cannot be entirely subsumed by power but offers a way out of our current dilemmas. It shares this openness with art....Poetic Thinking alerts us to the relevance of our capacity to judge for both art and morality. [Eshel] has written a practical guide to recall and activate our capacity for judgment—and exactly in this heartfelt invitation for us to use our capacity to judge rests its explosive power."—Volkmar Mühleis, DeutschlandfunkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Thinking Poems: On Paul Celan and Dan Pagis 2. Thinking Paintings: On Gerhard Richter 3. Thinking Sculptures: On Dani Karavan Coda: Our Poetic Age
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Information Age Publishing Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development
Book SynopsisIn this second edition of Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development we’ve maintained the conceptual framework while updating sections to provide the most recent research on instructional strategies that have the most promise of helping all students learn. Modifications of the law resulting from the reauthorization of the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act—Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (2015)—and their implication for practice are embedded throughout this new edition. Updated data collection tools for classroom observations are also provided. We included a link to a website that contains all the observation tools in electronic format so that observers can have the opportunity to collect data on a tablet or laptop, save the observation data as a PDF file and e-mail those data to the teacher observed.This new edition recognizes the reality that all principals are responsible for supervision, evaluation, and professional development of their teachers—tasks that are neither simple nor without conflict. The primary audience of this text is aspiring and practicing principals. We hope to help them understand both the theory and practice of supervision, evaluation, and professional development. However, observing instruction, collecting data for reflection, and having conversations about teaching, are not the sole provinces of principals. Master teachers, teacher leaders, and teacher colleagues can also benefit from the supervisory sections of the book, especially the chapters on high-quality instruction, improving instruction, and the classroom data collecting tools.The book provides numerous tools specifically designed to collect a variety of data in classrooms to improve instruction. Embedded in each chapter are exercises to apply Theory into Practice by responding to a set of questions posed by the key issues of the chapter. After the explication and illustration of the key concepts and principles of the chapter, actual Instructional Leadership Challenges as described by a successful practicing principal for reflection and analysis.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Learning Leadership Chapter 2: An Integrated Model of Learning Leadership Chapter 3: Creating a School Context to Improve Student Learning Chapter 4: A Model for Classroom Supervision Chapter 5: Supervision of Instruction Chapter 6: Supervisory Skills Chapter 7: High Quality Instruction Chapter 8: Improving Instruction Chapter 9: Professional Development Chapter 10: Evaluation Chapter 11: Implementing Evaluation Chapter 12: Supervision and Professional Development: An Application Chapter 13: Evaluation, Supervision and Professional Development: Applications Appendixes References About the Authors Index
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Micro-Reflection on Classroom Communication: A Fab Framework
Book SynopsisTraditional concerns with classroom communication have centered on questions such as who talks more, whether the interaction is teacher-centered or student-centered, whether participation is restricted to a few or available to all, what kinds of questions teachers ask (display or referential), and what kinds of feedback they give. These indicators provide a simple and useful way of capturing classroom communication in distributional and categorical terms. Less attention has been devoted to observing and understanding the quality of this communication—whether it facilitates learning regardless of, for example, who talks more. Based on over a decade of fine-grained analysis of video-recorded ESL classroom interaction, this book offers one way of seeing and gauging the quality of classroom communication beyond distributions and categories. In particular, by parsing detailed transcripts of actual classroom interaction, it invites reflective conversations on how three principles of skillful classroom communication may be practiced in the micro-moments of classroom interaction: (1) fostering an inviting classroom environment, (2) attending to student voices, and (3) balancing competing demands (FAB). Attention to the moment-by-moment complexity of the classroom also allows teachers to learn and practice the skill of noticing, the first step in an iterative cycle of noticing, reflecting, and practicing. That is, along with reflecting on what happened in a classroom, teachers must also learn to notice what is happening in the moment. The goal is to cultivate a mentality of micro-reflection—one that sensitizes teachers to the consequentiality of every move they make as they make them in the simultaneity and sequentiality of second-by-second classroom interaction.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Foster an Inviting Environment Chapter 3: Attend to Student Voices Chapter 4: Balance Competing Demands Chapter 5 The FAB Classroom: Bringing it all Together Chapter 6: Conclusion Appendix A: Transcription Symbols Appendix B: List of Extracts
£29.27
Taylor & Francis Ltd Developing Childrens Critical Thinking Through
Book SynopsisThis accessible text will show students and class teachers how they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through the medium of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion, Roche focuses on carefully chosen picturebooks as a stimulus for discussion, and shows how they can constitute an accessible, multimodal resource for adding to literacy skills, while at the same time developing in pupils a far wider range of literary understanding.By allowing time for thinking about and digesting the pictures as well as the text, and then engaging pupils in classroom discussion, this book highlights a powerful means of developing children's oral language ability, critical thinking, and visual literacy, while also acting as a rich resource for developing children's literary understanding. Throughout, Roche provides rich data and examples from real classroom practice.This book also provides an overview ofTrade Review"This book is exactly what it claims to be on the cover – it is a well-mapped guide for classroom teachers, students or parents who are looking for ways to engage young students in reading activities that will develop their critical literacy and their critical thinking skills. […] I would recommend this book to all primary school teachers, as well as to second-level English and SEN teachers."– Jean Johnston, ILSA Quarterly"The voices of children and teachers, richly engaged with picturebooks, resound enthrallingly in this enthusiastic, thoughtful and superbly well-informed account of productive classroom practice." - UKLA Academic Book Award Panel"This book is exactly what it claims to be on the cover – it is a well-mapped guide for classroom teachers, students or parents who are looking for ways to engage young students in reading activities that will develop their critical literacy and their critical thinking skills. […] I would recommend this book to all primary school teachers, as well as to second-level English and SEN teachers." – Jean Johnston, ILSA Quarterly "The voices of children and teachers, richly engaged with picturebooks, resound enthrallingly in this enthusiastic, thoughtful and superbly well-informed account of productive classroom practice." - UKLA Academic Book Award Panel"This book brings together into one voice the best of an academic, scholar and educational practitioner working to develop the quality of the educational experience for children in circumstances where values of humanity often seem to be, at best ignored, and at worst felt to be voilating contradictions" - Mary Huxtable, Educational Journal of Living Theories"I would cerntainly recommend this book for teachers eager to put their students at the heart of an authentic learning environment where teachers and pupils create and negotiate meaning together" - Duncan McCarthy, InTouch Magazine "Mary Roche has created a bright, engaging, and academically rigorous study of the powerful role that picture books play in the primary classroom. She has just been highly commended for its significant contribution to the teaching of English at the UKLA academic book awards. " - Martin Galway, Herts for LearningTable of Contents1. Critical Thinking and Book Talk’ - The ‘why’ factor 2. Comprehension, making meaning, literacy, critical thinking and critical literacy 3. Interactive, or dialogic, reading aloud 4. A focus on oral language development 5. Some picturebook theory 6. Critical Thinking and Book Talk in the Classroom 7. Practical advice 8. Conclusion
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Harvard University Press The College Administrators Survival Guide
Book SynopsisSince its release in 2006, The College Administrator’s Survival Guide has been the bible of deans and department heads. This newly revised and updated edition guides rookies and veterans alike through today’s most pressing campus challenges, from difficult people to budget cuts, the hassles of social media, and the new demands of remote learning.Trade ReviewUniversity administrators have such hard jobs—lots of responsibility, limited power, and vexing people problems. If you have one of these crazy jobs, or are considering one, Tina Gunsalus is here to help. The College Administrator’s Survival Guide shows you how to avoid and get out of all kinds of common predicaments—it is useful, engaging, and, well, downright fun. -- Robert I. Sutton, Professor, Stanford University, and author of New York Times bestsellers The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad BossTina Gunsalus puts on a master class, skillfully weaving leadership theory, her significant administrative expertise, and a hefty serving of common sense in this practical guide. Drawing on a wealth of robust, familiar exemplars, Gunsalus offers tested tools and sound advice. Her writing is jargon-free, humorous, and conversational. Leading in higher education is not for the faint-hearted; this book is a must-read for anyone who hopes to survive the vagaries of academic administration. -- Ann Briggs Addo, former Chief of Staff and Assistant Vice Chancellor to the Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, University of California, San DiegoThe College Administrator’s Survival Guide has long been required reading for department chairs and university leaders at our university. By tackling issues raised by the pandemic and the recent political reckoning over racism and sexual violence on campus, the revised guide is now even more essential for all university administrators. -- Kavita Pandit, Professor and Senior Advisor to the Provost, Georgia State UniversityI highly recommend the book to academic leaders at all levels. The contents transcend cultural barriers and institutional experience and are practical, readable, and enormously helpful to faculty who have been thrown into the deep end of academic leadership. -- Angela Goh, Emeritus Professor and former Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Nanyang Technological UniversityIndispensable…If you or someone you know is new to administration, or about to become new to administration, consider it required reading. -- Matt Reed * Inside Higher Ed *
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Scholastic US SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES BANISH BORING WORDS
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Learning That Lasts
Book SynopsisA practical guide to deeper instructiona framework for challenging, engaging, and empowering students of all ages For schools to meet ambitious new standards and prepare all students for college, careers, and life, research has shown unequivocally that nothing is more important that the quality of daily instruction. Learning That Lasts presents a new vision for classroom instruction that sharpens and deepens the quality of lessons in all subject areas. It is the opposite of a ''teacher-proof'' solution. Instead, it is predicated on a model of instruction that honors teachers as creative and expert planners of learning experiences for their students and who wish to continuously grow in their instructional and content knowledge. It is not a theoretical vision. It is a model of instruction refined in some of the nation''s most successful public schoolsschools that are beating the odds to create remarkable achievementsited primarily in urban and rural low-income communitieTable of ContentsDVD Contents vii Foreword ix Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii About the Authors xxi About EL Education xxiii Introduction 1 1 Planning and Delivering Lessons That Challenge, Engage, and Empower 15 2 Laying the Foundation for Deeper Learning with Literacy 67 3 Creating Scientists and Historians 121 4 Reimagining Mathematics Instruction 175 5 Teaching in and through the Arts 225 6 Differentiating Instruction 275 Conclusion 333 Appendix A Sample Protocol-Based Lessons 337 Appendix B The What, Why, and How of Protocols 345 Appendix C Primary Source Close Reading Guide 349 Appendix D Factors to Guide Your Selection of Text 353 Appendix E From Assignment to Assessment 357 Appendix F Informational Text Resources 359 Appendix G Photograph Resources 363 Appendix H Great Online Mathematics Resources 365 Appendix I Kid Curators Rubric 369 Appendix J Initiatives that Build a Positive Classroom Culture of Differentiation 373 References 377 How to Use the DVD 383 Index 385
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Rockridge Press Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids: 55 Fun
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£13.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Uncommon Sense Teaching
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£15.99
MIT Press Designing Constructionist Futures The Art Theory
Book SynopsisA diverse group of scholars redefine constructionism—introduced by Seymour Papert in 1980—in light of new technologies and theories.Constructionism, first introduced by Seymour Papert in 1980, is a framework for learning to understand something by making an artifact for and with other people. A core goal of constructionists is to respect learners as creators, to enable them to engage in making meaning for themselves through construction, and to do this by democratizing access to the world's most creative and powerful tools. In this volume, an international and diverse group of scholars examine, reconstruct, and evolve the constructionist paradigm in light of new technologies and theories. Taken together, their contributions show that constructionism has advanced in educational research and practice—and also that, in turn, researchers and practitioners can learn from constructionism how to foster learning in ways that respect learners' creativity and communit
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